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Behind Flatspot.Pictures

Personal tech ramblings and projects from some software engineer and photography nut
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Overlay WindowsStore-Apps (UWP) without code-signing or hooking (aka. true always on top windows)

If you want to overlay Windows Store apps, the program has to have the 'uiAccess=True' flag set in the manifest, and it must be signed. Code-Signing costs money, so that's bad for any small open-source project. However, there is another way...

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Peter Repukat January 6th, 2022
The Ultimate WSL2 setup (Updated 2024)

Ever wondered how to seamlessly blend Windows and Linux in your daily workflow? My friends and colleagues frequently ask about my WSL setup - both for personal projects and professional work. So here is my personal "Ultimate WSL2 Setup"

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Peter Repukat December 8th, 2021
Advanced Typescript Types, explanations and Cheatsheet

Typescript provides a fair share of built-in Utility-Types, however, I always come back copy-pasta-ing from my old code when needing more complex util-types. So here's a cheat-sheet, with examples and explanations, for some of the advanced types I've built and used within the last years.

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Peter Repukat March 11th, 2021
Third party Steam Controller software. Part 1 - State after a year

It’s been well over a year since Valve has released their little beasty of an input device dubbed “Steam Controller”. When Valve first announced it and stated that this...

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Peter Repukat February 24th, 2017
Third party Steam Controller software. Part 2 - My take on it.

In part one of this two-part article, I went over what we have seen in the first year and a bit since the Steam Controller has launched, in terms of hardware mods and (mostly third party) software for it.

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Peter Repukat February 24th, 2017
Hacking and Modding Windows Universal Apps and Games (UWP)

There are a lot of misconceptions about Windows 10 UWP Apps. Most people think that you can't do anything to them, in terms of modding or hacking. Well, this is **not true** at all.

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Peter Repukat September 19th, 2016
A better commandline experience on Windows

Lets face it, the default command line in Windows is pretty bad. The terminal and the shell are functional, sure. But they’re not very comfortable to use and have

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Peter Repukat August 3rd, 2016
Steam Controller - Perspective of a computer science student

I really got excited about the Steam Controller and the kind of gaming it could enable, when Valve first announced it and stated that this thing should be as hackable

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Peter Repukat December 16th, 2015
std::cout << "Hello World!";

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Peter Repukat December 15th, 2015